Roger Dean – Shadow of the Beast

Roger Dean’s most famous for his otherworldly album sleeves for 70’s Prog Rockers YES, in the 80’s and early 90’s he also produced a number of pieces of cover art for Liverpool software house Psygnosis (mentioned elsewhere in this blog).

Shadow of the Beast was one of their most popular releases and featured – for the time – pretty slick graphics, including a lavishly animated main character and parallax scrolling. The gameplay wasn’t all that, it did, however, have a wicked atmospheric score from computer game music innovator David Whittaker.

Shadow of the Beast T-shirt

Some of the Game Boxes came with a free T-Shirt, now highly sort after, and boxes featuring the t-shirt show up on ebay selling for north of £50 / $100. As a sucker for geek-but-knowingly-cool rubbish, I would possibly pay that, but I’m betting its a shit fruit-of-the-loom job.

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8 thoughts on “Roger Dean – Shadow of the Beast”

  1. I just found this fantastic blog of yours and I have to brag that I actually have that original box (bought it the day the game came out) and shirt and yes it is of terrible quality… But it’s only worn on very special occations, so it doesn’t matter 🙂

  3. lol, i just found this box when i was lookin through some old stuff of mine in the attic. i never would have worn this shirt back then, but now i’m kinda happy that i didn’t throw it away.. 🙂

  4. I had that Beast shirt, got it for a few dollars at a thrift store in the 80s/early 90s. I have no idea where it is if I still have it. I really hope I didn’t give it away.

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